After sitting through Sunday's speculation of what could be in the then upcoming government announcement on "gay marriage" I was fairly certain that it was going to be about how religious premises would be able to start offering civil partnerships and was hopeful of the announcement/launch of a consultation on actual equality on this issue.

But then I heard defenders of the Pope and the Catholic church on Today arguing that their church was all about equalities and universals. I hadn't fully understood the message of the news report that he was going to attack secularism - I was too busy being shocked that the church thinks it is promoting equality.